This guidebook from the Davidson Institute Team specifically designed to help parents and students interested in developing a mentorship. The guidebook will help you answer such questions as: Is a mentoring partnership appropriate? How do I locate a mentor? What kind of relationship is most beneficial? Use as an information guide to help establish, maintain, and conclude a mentorship.
"The Academy of Achievement is like no other organization in the world. For more than 40 years, this unique non-profit entity has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age. The annual International Achievement Summit has provided thousands of outstanding students with an unforgettable, life changing experience – one in which young people whose dreams will determine our collective tomorrow draw inspiration, courage and strength from those individuals who have shaped our world of today."
COG provides support, education and advocacy for gifted students in Citrus County, Fla. COG is a parent-teacher organization designed with the particular needs of the gifted student and his/her family in mind.
PAGES provides support to parents of gifted children and their families and seeks to foster an awareness within the community of the needs of gifted children, and to promote the use of home, school, and community resources for their benefit.
This group is a volunteer community advocacy group open to everyone interested in academic excellence and opportunity for students in Naperville Community Unit School District 203.
Unschoolers Unlimited publishes a newsletter, mailing list, and learning exchange list to stay in touch and network. Members hold family gatherings every other month so to socialize, share ideas and information, inspiration and good food.
"Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With more than 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide."
This organization offers numerous publications, training programs and consulting services on creativity, creative problem solving, talent development, and learning styles.
This Center, housed within the American Psychological Association (APA), provides public awareness, support, new research discoveries and clinical applications that develop success and performance for gifted and talented children and adolescents.
This group plans conferences and other gatherings for highly and profoundly gifted children, their families, and the professionals who work with them. GCP also arranges smaller events, depending on the needs or interests of families, groups, or schools.
The ING Unsung Heroes awards program recognizes innovative and progressive thinking in education. The maximum award is $25,000. To be eligible, applicants must be a full-time educator, teacher, principal, paraprofessional, or classified staff member with projects that improve student learning at K-12 public or private schools.
The Institute for Learning Technologies seeks to help advance Americans by exerting educational leadership through innovative projects, seminal research, and enlightened counsel. It aims to nurture, in a sustained manner, the humane application of information technologies, expanding educational opportunity and achievement for all.
"The National Latin Exam is offered under the joint sponsorship of the American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League.They are pleased to announce the 2003 ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam. It is a national exam that all Latin students are eligible to take. More than 114,000 Latin students across the U.S.A., Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Italy, Japan, Scotland, New Zealand, the Republic of South Africa, and Zimbabwe took the 2001 National Latin Exam, a significant increase since its inception in 1978 when 6000 students enrolled."
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science recognizes the top teachers in mathematics and science from across the country. Up to 108 teachers are chosen for the award every year, and winners receive a signed citation from the President of the United States and a trip to Washington, DC to attend the awards ceremony. Teachers in grades K through 12 are eligible.
"Welcome to the world of boarding schools! At this site you will learn about exciting programs and activities at almost 300 college-prep schools throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. Wondering which schools offer the sports, arts, or clubs you're interested in? Try using School Finder for answers." Check out their website for details.
"Our mission is to provide an organization for educators, psychologists, parents, policy makers, administrators and others to learn about the unique educational and affective needs of gifted and talented children and how to meet these needs effectively in our schools, families, and communities. It recognizes that gifted children come from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and have diverse abilities and interests." Topics include:Events, Calendar, Advocacy, CT Law & Policy, Hot Topics, Archive, Bibliography and Links.
"Yunasa, the Lakota word meaning balance, is a weeklong camp experience for highly gifted youth. The mission of Yunasa is to teach campers techniques and skills for integrating the intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and physical aspects of their lives. Yunasa is devoted to reminding bright young people that they are more than just intellect."
Dr. Carol Strip Whitney presents concepts and techniques to counteract many de-motivating factors gifted children are susceptible to. These factors can lead to depression and academic underachievement. Whitney, along with help from Gretchen Hirsch, offers helpful advice to help spark the motivation in your gifted child or student.
In this revised edition to 1997's Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works, award-winning author Barbara Gilman walks parents and teachers through the process of documenting a child's abilities to providing reasonable educational options year by year. Learn about the problems and solutions for gifted students: Underachievement, Curriculum and Instruction, The Experience of Giftedness, and more.
This book written by Tom Jackson, contains a variety of activities that are great supplements to units for social isssues. Additionally, this author offers specific guidelines and ideas to help kids learn practical ways to make decisions, solve problems and think about life issues.
"You'll find everything you forgot from school--as well as plenty you never even learned--in this all-purpose reference book. The updated version takes a whirlwind tour through 12 different disciplines, from American studies to philosophy to world history. The authors provide a plethora of useful information, from the plot of Othello to the difference between fission and fusion. It's not a shortcut to cultural literacy, but it's an excellent "way in" to the building blocks of Western civilization: the "books, music, art, philosophy, and discoveries that have managed to endure." Think of it as finishing school for your brain; study up and you'll gain a lifetime's worth of cocktail conversation--as well as a new list of books you simply must read." (Source: Amazon.com)
This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simple memorization/blind acceptance of information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to react rationally to alternative points of view and helps them develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject as they read and listen.
Writers Dona J. Matthews and Joanne F. Foster advises the reader on how to answer the tricky questions, support gifted kids in today's "common" world, and what to tell the kids along the way. This book also examines different ways of supporting optimal development in those who have been labeled "gifted," and those who have not.
The 29 practices included in this book from Robinson, Shore and Enersen, are the result of an extensive examination of educational research on what works with talented youth.
This book by Monita R. Leavitt, is great for anyone building a gifted program from scratch or evaluating or changing your program. A CD is included with exciting PowerPoint slides, alomg with a manual to give you everything you need for staff development, allowing you to customize sessions for parents or school boards. The manual contains background material with references as well as reproducible pages that can be used as handouts.
This manual is a guide for helping students sixth grade and above develop manners and personal communication skills. It contains practical exercises which teach students skills in verbal and non-verbal communication.
This book from Roberta Milgram highlights the role of regular classroom teachers and teachers of the gifted in counseling; provides teachers, counselors, and parents with information about the wide variety of approaches to enrichment and/or acceleration.
This handbook is a practical guide for starting your own gifted program. The author gives tips on Designing and implementing curriculum for pre-K through middle school, identifying and selecting the best teachers, creating the vital support networks among parents, school, and community, assessing the program’s impact on children, parents, and teachers and developing special programming for the disadvantaged gifted students.
Kenneth Lane outlines 103 activities that are designed to help give a child the necessary perceptual motor-skills needed to succeed in school. Categories covered are motor, visual motor, ocular motor, vision, laterality, directionality, sequential processing and simultaneous processing.
In this guide, Diane Heacox presents a menu of strategies for any teacher faced with a spectrum of student needs and styles. Some are quick and easy--differentiating discussions, creating tiered assignments. Others are more comprehensive--matrix plans for designing curriculum units, "one-sentence lesson plans" that encompass content, process skills, and evidence of learning.
This book offers sound advice and guidance for parents of gifted and talented children of preschool and elementary school age. Authors Olszewski-Kubilius, Limburg-Weber and Pfeiffer, detail how parents can create a home environment that both elicits and develops their child's special abilities through activities, games, and play.
This is a "standard introductory textbook in gifted education. The most notable change for this edition is a new chapter on counseling that addresses the social, emotional, and education/career needs and problems of gifted children, and outlines specific counseling-related roles for teachers, parents, counselors, and even school administrators."
The authors join together to prove that training preschoolers with flash cards and attempting to hurry intellectual development doesn't pay off. In fact, the authors claim, kids who are pressured early on to join the academic rat race don't fair any better than children who are allowed to take their time. Alarmed by the current trend toward creating baby Einsteins, the authors urge parents to step back and practice the "Three R's: Reflect, Resist, and Recenter." Instead of pushing preschoolers into academically oriented programs that focus on early achievement, they suggest that children learn best through simple playtime, which enhances problem solving skills, attention span, social development and creativity.
This excellent guidebook offers an innovative, field-tested approach to programming for gifted children. The "Levels of Service" approach to programming is a research-supported, common-sense technique to gifted education program development. The authors, leaders in the field for more than two decades, offer a straightforward method of organizing student experiences. This how-to manual for building an effective gifted program offers a four-level approach to gifted education services. Each level is thoroughly discussed, specific services are suggested, real-world examples are provided, and additional areas of development are discussed. Also, this book provides strategies for planning, implementation, and evaluation.
The primary goal of this book is to enable teachers and other professionals to assist parents and other family members in becoming full partners in the educational process by teaching advocacy techniques. The text is intended for pre-service students preparing to become special education teachers, counselors, therapists, and program administrators.
This book is for teachers and parents who have children of special ability/gifted. This resource takes an accessible, practical and inclusive approach to ways of working with highly gifted children.
This book by Gary A. Davis Ph. D. is a no-nonsense guide to the concept of giftedness in children, and how parents can provide opportunities to cultivate their children's gifts. Chapters address how to identify gifted children, the pros and cons of educational acceleration and common problems or counseling needs among gifted children.
Author Kate Distin aims to help children and their families learn more about what is typical or normal for gifted and talented children and to shatter some of the myths about these children and their parents.
This book describes a homeschooling method for highly gifted students which stresses a self-actualizing home education approach based on the child's interests and motivation. The book is grounded in theory and research from education and psychology.
This book by Joan Franklin Smutny pulls together years of research on educating gifted students. The result is a book that incorporates research with practical advice, how-tos, worksheets and application.
Authors Gross, MacLeod, Drummond, and Merrick deliver an informative resource assisting teachers in developing curriculum enriching activities.
This book contains examples of lessons which "allow all students to experience the joy of learning about themselves while acting in the service of others." All of the activities contain the following elements...They involve both cognitive and affective learning. They are experiential, open-ended, product focused and flexible in scope and time. They can be modified to suit teachers' and students' needs.
Barbara Clark's Growing Up Gifted is a text book for gifted education studies. While it doesn't focus on the highly gifted, it does offer a good overview of the research in various areas of gifted education and development.
This award-winning practical source for parents and teachers discusses the unique social and emotional needs and concerns of gifted students. Chapters on motivation, discipline, peer relationships, sibling relationships, stress management, depression, and many other issues that parents and teachers encounter daily with these children are included. See also: A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children, an updated version of this book.
The 3rd edition of this classic text is the most comprehensive print resource currently available that addresses important research-based considerations in gifted education. Many respected professionals have contributed chapters that cover the following topics: conceptions and identification; instructional models and practices; creativity, thinking skills, and eminence; psychological and counseling issues; populations of giftedness; and special topics, including technology, rural schools, and legal issues.
This book, written by Terry W. Neu, Ph.D., Rich Weinfeld, combine field-tested strategies and advice with case studies of boys across the nation to give smart young boys and their parents a strong guide for ensuring boys' success in school and the future.
This book is a gold mine for families of all economic backgrounds who are homeschooling gifted children! Most homeschooling families do not have access to guidance services and must figure out the college entrance maze on their own, this book goes far in guiding parents and students through that process step by step. Multi-year planning is encouraged, and the book is sensitive to the unique issues of gifted college bound students coming from diverse backgrounds. At $10, the book is extremely reasonably priced.
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working with schools, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support groups, choosing appropriate curriculum, meeting social and emotional needs, surviving the ups and downs, and much more! The information and useful advice provided make this book an ideal resource both for those just starting out in the gifted field as well as those who are already seasoned veterans.
This book/course is designed to help teens become increasingly independent in planning and managing their own homeschooling programs. Sections include goal-setting; making a four-year high school plan; working out a yearly plan; planning individual courses; developing and completing course assignments and projects; scheduling; record-keeping; and planning for post-secondary education. The book contains many helpful, reproducible forms that will streamline the planning and recordkeeping tasks of home schooling for many families. Transcript format options are included. It is nominally coming from a Christian perspective, but can easily be adapted to students of any faith, or none.
"ASCD announces a new book designed to help every teacher who chairs a department, leads a committee, manages a team, coordinates a program, or mentors other teachers to accomplish basic leadership tasks with speed and precision. Filled with tips and how-to's that are left out of most teacher education courses and inservice programs, the guide covers formal and informal tasks that teacher leaders at every grade level are expected to know but rarely do."
This is a resource writing book for teachers, or homeschool parents, etc. who are trying to teach children how to write. It contains activities to inspire young writers to write, revise and edit. There are many ideas on assessing student growth.
By compiling a wide variety of viewpoints from many authors, Diane Boothe looks at the diversity in gifted education as it relates to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Wendy Skinner shares her family’s story of struggle and eventual success in working with the school system to meet her children’s needs. Enlightening anecdotes of the author’s experience demonstrate strategies for minimizing parent-school conflict. Learn how to build trusting relationships with teachers and administrators, and how your voice can change your child’s life.
Next to intelligence, no topic in psychology or education has been as salient and controversial for so long a time as giftedness. In some areas of research, controversy proceeds without notable progress. This volume is eloquent testimony to the progress of the field in the last few decades.
The Italic Handwriting Series is the nation's leading instructional guide to legible italic handwriting. Developed at Portland State College in Portland, OR, the series teaches students to write quickly, accurately, and aesthetically in both italic manuscript and italic cursive.
Jackdaws are a series of curriculum guides for eras in American and world history, accompanied by facsimiles of primary historical documents and materials. For students (and homeschooling families) who prefer to work from primary sources, like the accurate "look" of history, and find a curriculum guide helpful, the Jackdaws will lend a "you are there" perspective to the study of history.
"This book for parents and educators delineates methods of addressing the needs of mathematically talented youth younger than age 12. The approaches described are based on the authors’ experiences with hundreds of talented students. They discuss educational options allowing students to move systematically through the elementary math curriculum while matching the curriculum to the students' abilities and achievements. The book includes problem sets from the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary Schools as well as practical ideas for classroom teachers, mathematics mentors, and parents."
The KONOS Character Curriculum is a multi-level, K-8 curriculum guide which allows a homeschooling parent to teach several ages of children from the same materials. The units are designed around desirable character traits, and incorporate many elements appropriate for gifted pupils, including an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum, challenging hands-on projects, enrichment suggestions, and the possibility of placing a child at accelerated or varied levels within the curriculum. A nondenominational Christian curriculum, this program was originally designed for Mrs. Hulcy's own highly gifted children.
"Pessimism is escapable," asserts Martin Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel better and accomplish more. Content includes test for you and your child, worksheets, and skill teaching for changing from pessimism to optimism.
This Book by Gloria Frender delivers some great tools to help students achieve success in both school and life. Practical hints are useful to parents, teachers or anyone wanting a hands-on guide on "learning how to learn."
This combined studio art/art history program provides lesson plans, and background materials for those who want a structured, interdisciplinary art and art history curriculum. Developmentally appropriate, but challenging activities are included for each grade level. Each grade level's materials comes in a large three-ring binder. Supplementary art prints and slides are also available. These curriculum guides were designed with public school teachers in mind, but could easily be adapted to a homeschooling or co-op setting.
Deborah L. Ruf divides the content of this book in to three parts dealing with: Identifying characteristics of giftedness, levels of giftedness and educational options and school issues. This reference can help someone who is not professionally trained in giftedness issues, bridge the gap between the real child and the child's IQ.
This book offers teachers numerous concrete, easy-to-use teaching strategies to help gifted students develop socially, emotionally, as well as intellectually. Topics include resolving conflicts at school and at home, managing stress, and handling feelings of "differentness." Teachers will also find helpful guidelines in dealing with parents, administrators, and attitudes about gifted education.
This book, written by the founder of the Math Olympiad for Elementary and Middle Schools, is intended to help 4th to 8th grade students learn to solve tricky multi-step problems similar to one's on the SATs. The book provides the actual problems from previous years as well as the solutions.
This text, first written in 1970, treats mathematics as a language, wholly within each human being's grasp to discover and learn. Chapters are broken up into individual lessons, enabling the book to be used for multiple students at different levels and abilities.
The book focus on differentiating instruction for gifted learners. Sections include: characteristics and needs of gifted learners, instructional planning and evaluation, strategies for best practices, supporting and enhancing gifted programs. The book also contains lists of up-to-date books, teaching materials, websites and other resources. Contributing authors include: Carolyn M. Callahan, Sandra Kaplan, Sally Reis, Julia Link Roberts and Joyce VanTassel-Baska.
In this book, Suzanne Donovan and Christopher Cross of the U.S. National Research Council, consider possible contributors to the disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic minority students in GT programs. Discussions include early biological and environmental influences and inequities in opportunities for preschool and K-12 education, as well as the possibilities of bias in the referral and assessment system that leads to placement in special programs.
This book (450 pages) contains approaches and actual subject matter for delivering a superior K-5 education. It describes not only WHAT to teach, but also HOW to teach it using hundreds of hands-on activities, and much more.
Dr. Tracy Cross brings together years of columns from Gifted Child Today, which combine his knowledge of research on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness along with his experience, resulting in a readable, useful look into these unique students.
This book presents students with a unique introduction to the field of gifted education. The history and curriculum of gifted education are intermingled with interviews and stories highlighting the lives and words of educators and researchers who have devoted their time and energy to gifted children.
In this book, Naomi Drew presents the same action plan for parents that she developed for the classroom. Hands-on examples and testimonials give the reader such techniques as: Active listening - five simple principles that foster understanding and self-esteem; Resolving conflicts - six steps for turning tears and frustration into win/win outcomes; and, An "on-the-spot" tool to reclaim calmness instantly.
Practical Ideas That Really Work for Students Who Are Gifted is written by Gail Ryser and Kathleen McConnell to help educators and gifted specialists identify gifted students and then provides ideas on gifted instructional techniques and strategies. This tool kit allows parents to not only buy the book, but also offers evaluation forms and updates the materials periodically.
In this service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children, editors Frances Karnes and Stephanie Nugent, provide a retrospctive review of events and milestones that have shaped the field of gifted education. Through individual profiles, more than 50 influential people in the gifted education field share their insights of where gifted education has been and where it is going.
Jaime Castellano and Eva Díaz offer a comprehensive overview at the interface between bilingual/multicultural/ESL education and gifted education. The authors have collaborated to create a book that bridges research and practice and has far-reaching implications for educators at all levels as culturally and linguistically diverse students continue to impact public education.
This book provides parents and educators ideas for discussing fiction with their children. The goal of this book is to help parents teach their children to enjoy reading.
Reforming Gifted Education is a research-based book by Karen Rogers, discusses acceleration of students, grouping within the school setting, and program provisions both in and outside of school. Rogers spells out and categorizes ways for schools, teachers, and parents to meet the needs of gifted children, including which students will benefit from particular instructional delivery methods and how each student need can best be addressed.
In this book, authors Stephan M. Silverman and Rich Weinfeld, cover topics such as recognizing and diagnosing Asperger's syndrome, addressing the needs of students with Asperger's, and providing interventions in the home to help develop needed skills.
This textbook for educators is intended to help them learn to define underachievement as it pertains to the gifted, identify its characteristics and causes among the gifted,
see the effects of neglecting underachievement in these students, understand the special needs of gifted underachievers which are different from the basic needs of students in general, and practice specific ways to help gifted underachievers.
This innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows:
- How these patterns originate in people’s self-theories
- Their consequences for the person – for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being
- Their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations
- The experiences that create them
This concise guide provides an introduction to the various types of out-of-school programming recommended and appropriate for gifted and advanced learners. VanTassel-Baska includes overviews of mentoring programs, residential schools, summer opportunities, and distance learning. Readers can learn about alternative services for teachers, parents and gifted education program directors.
This book uses the metaphor of six different hats to talk about different styles of thinking. A great resource for parents and teachers who are interested in helping bright young people to differentiate their thinking abilities.
Parents and teachers of gifted students with learning disabilities should be grateful for this definitive work on "conundrum kids" - the superb writer who can't add, the talented speech maker who can't write legibly. Chapters on young children provide practical suggestions and ideas for parents trying to decide when the child should start school and teachers trying to cope. The work also covers students up through college and deals with the topics of visual learning, motor functioning, auditory learning, language and learning, and psychological problems. Strategies for dealing with standardized tests and conquering the world of college are also included. Click here to read a review of this book.
This guide is aimed at saving time by thoroughly translating legal regulations so educators can fully focus on the services their students need. Allan Osborne and Charles Russo touch on the relevant topics of court decisions surrounding student placement, legal definitions of parental rights and legal requirements of special education students and disciplinary actions.
A comprehensive coverage of human exceptionalities. This author, with a Ph.D. in the areas of human learning, child development, and behavioral disabilities, presents an emphasis on inclusion in this book. There are chapters on transition, multicultural consideration, and use of technology. See pages 315-361 for People who are gifted and talented by Julia Link Roberts.
Developed through a joint effort between Prufrock Press, Inc. and the National Association for Gifted Children, this book acts as the reference for anyone involved in gifted and talented staff development. Facilitators for gifted programs must be able to plan, implement and evaluate staff-development experiences for a variety of school personnel and support role groups.
Winner of the prestigious BolognaRagazzi Award, this intriguing book provides parents and educators with a springboard for discussions on life's questions. No answers are provided in Stormy Night. Rather, the questions prompt readers to explore their own place in the world. With imaginative drawings and simple but thought-provoking text, Stormy Night is the perfect place for children, regardless of age, cultural background or religion, to start looking for their own answers to all the really important questions.
Authors, Tina Newman and Robert Sternberg provide the reader with a broader conceptualization of the gifted/LD learner to include students who have gifts in other areas than high IQ and who would benefit from being identified and having their talents nurtured.
A classic textbook divided into three general parts: the gifted child and the changing school program, content modifications and information-processing strategies. Read an article by James Gallagher, one of the earliest researchers in the field.
Authors Beatrice Elyé and Catherine Southwick use a warm conversational style to help give your teenager the practical skills they need to succeed: time management, speed reading, communication and decision making.
Chris Zeigler Dendy presents practical information that will help parents in their day to day struggle to deal with the changing world of an adolescent with ADHD. Dendy illustrates these points with factual material helpful to both parents and teachers.
A book about the learning difficulties presented by the current teaching methods, which result in only short term memory and poor ownership of the material by the student. Good for rethinking teaching methodology.
In this book, Linda Deal explores the subject of boredom and supplies parents and teachers with important information that will allow them to understand why children complain about being bored and develop strategies to counter it. Learn about the "hows" and "whys" of boredom and make your classroom a more dynamic learning environment for all children.
This handbook covers the concept of expertise, differentiating between the performance and knowledge of experts and non-experts. The editors imply a series of interviews and diary entries to further display the inner workings of the minds of experts. Topics of expertise covered include brain activity, self-regulated learning, knowledge management, and much more.
Lawrence Siegel provides an overview of special ed and the IEP process; sample IEP forms and letters; organization and planning tips; a listing of support groups, advocacy organizations and federal and state departments of education. The entire IEP process is spelled out in easy to follow steps that guides one through the process.
Discusses the adverse effects of homework, and raises questions on whether it contributes to your child's intellectual development, its impact on family life, and whether valuable experiences are being lost to homework. Parents are conditioned to see homework problems as our failure, but is homework often a transference of the schools' responsibility to parents. Would be useful to parents whose profoundly gifted children are in the public school system.
This book, by David White, is designed for use in a variety of ways: philosophical, practical, and theoretical. Recommended for grades 6-12, this is an excellent teachers’ handbook for using advanced philosophy in the classroom.
This is the fourth volume resulting from the Stanford studies of gifted children. The present volume is an over-all report of the work done with the California group of gifted subjects from 1921 to 1946, the greater part of it being devoted to a summary of the follow-up data obtained in 1940 and 1945. The chief aim of the report is to give as complete a picture as possible, within a single volume, of what the group is like at the end of the first twenty-five years of testing and observation.
This in-depth textbook, edited by Dixon and Moon, helps educators interested in building effective and comprehensive educational programs for gifted students. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar that researches in the field. Topics include: understanding the gifted adolescent, adolescent issues, instruction and programming options, teacher education and professional development. Click here to read a review of this book.
This text, by Linda Agler Sonna, Ph.D., gives parents and educators great ideas on how to make sure students complete their homework. She covers several topics, including how to recognize homework problems, making a commitment, giving praise and avioding conflict.
Contains 4000 illustrations, diagrams & charts, timelines, maps and graphics. Covers 1100 key topics, 52 subject areas. Provides "quick access" to a "wealth of facts". Text is comprehensive, information precise, understandable and enjoyable. "Researchers, writers, students and information lovers of every kind will find [it]...with its innovative approach and encyclopedic scope, as essential as a dictionary and as absorbing as a favorite novel."
Professor Alexinia Baldwin explores the many ways in which giftedness (intellectual potential) has been overlooked because of an individual's cultural group, handicap, or challenging condition. Baldwin presents the reader with practical suggestions to help provide a more appropriate education to develop the intellectual strengths of these children.
The Myth of Laziness, by Dr. Mel Levine, discusses neurodevelopmental dysfunctions that can cause "output failure" (commonly referred to as laziness) and shows parents how to nurture their children's strengths and improve their classroom productivity. It focuses on how correcting these problems in childhood will help children live a fulfilling and productive adult life. Parents who are told their gifted child is lazy or not living up to his/her potential can learn more about what laziness actually is, what causes it, and how to overcome it to avoid future problems, including in adulthood.
John Philo Dixon decribes ways to identify spatial children by addressing their cognitive perception and offers advice on methods of teaching in the classroom.
A very descriptive pre-algebra textbook. All kinds of fun activities, and it applies the mathematics to the real world. The book maintains math fundamentals in an engaging format while exploring new approaches to standard exercises.
This book by J. Piirto offers advice on how to plan adventures, value work without "evaluation", set a creative tone, and incorporate creativity values into one's own family or classroom culture.
Readers will learn how to spot talent through a child's behaviors and how to encourage practice. Real-life examples of artists, musicians, dancers, entrepreneurs, architects, and authors are included. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book by Marlene Bireley and Judy Genshaft is from the Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series published by Teacher College Press.
Parents, teachers and youth leaders will enjoy teaching character development using this creative workbook by Gary A Davis, Ph.D. Activities covering values such as Life Goals, Accepting Differences and Earning Respect, ask the students, ages 9-15, to think for themselves. Lessons progress from easy decisions and choices to those with more serious long-term consequences.
"We Care" contains thirty units of study organized into nine monthly sections, each unit includes hundreds of activities in multiple curriculum areas, and all units have been classroom tested. "We Care" provides a well-balanced curriculum in an easy-to-follow organizational format and has been proven to have effective content for two through five year olds. This book can be a tool to enrich each child's educational opportunities.
In a single convenient volume per grade -- beginning with What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know through What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know -- the seven-volume Core Knowledge Series provides parents, teachers, and children with an engaging, illustrated introduction to the important knowledge outlined in the Core Knowledge Sequence. Each book suggests related readings and resources. The kindergarten and first grade books also include sections on how children learn to read. "
Designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with children, this revised second-grade volume of The Core Knowledge Series, presents the knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging second-grade education.
This book is a valuable resource guide on how to write almost anything, from business letters and term papers to plays, poetry, and clear directions. The book can be used as a reference manual or as a writing curriculum guide. Highly recommended, many homeschooling families report sending their children off to college with this manual in tow! Great Source also publishes elementary and high school versions of the book, but the middle school version listed here is the most versatile.
This book describes several very bright young writers between the ages of 10 and 15; contains examples of their work; and provides information about how an adult writer mentored them.
This book provides short, targeted, very creative writing composition activities designed to teach specific skills and genres of writing.
This series is a complete writing program using a process approach to writing and composition assuring continuity and control. It has been written specifically for homeschoolers. The author has created manuals for the parent and/or student to use, depending on the level, suggesting the typical number of days to spend on each assignment. The author has also created manuals to teach fiction and interpersonal relationship skills, as well as to evaluate writing.
A guide for anyone working or living with children ages 4-14. Written for teachers and parents, author Chip Wood offers clear and concise descriptions of children's development. A comprehensive, "user-friendly" reference that helps translate knowledge of child development into schooling that helps all children succeed. Yardsticks includes charts summarizing physical, social, language, and cognitive growth patterns, suggestions for curricular areas, thematic units, and favorite books for different ages.
Some of America's brightest gifted students are held back and left behind, according to The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. This easy-to-read, user-friendly report explains why many schools, parents and teachers have not yet come to terms with acceleration - despite overwhelming evidence in its favor. Teachers and parents are presented information on early-entrance, grade skipping, the AP program and early college. Comments are accepted; this report can be downloaded online.
This periodical offers information on issues related to gifted children for parents, teachers and administrators. Topics such as teaching strategies, building effective gifted and talented programs and working with learning-disabled gifted children are often covered. Journal articles also offer advice on identifying gifted children, building effective gifted education methods in specific subjects and much more. In addition, some of the nation's most respected gifted education experts share their knowledge in regular columns.
Gifted Dialogue connects psychologists with the larger giftedness community of scholars, graduate students, local and state education policy makers and advocacy groups, educators, parents, and students. The newsletter features Continuing Education credit opportunities for psychologists, a graduate student column, and interviews and articles about giftedness.
The Journal for the Education of the Gifted (JEG) is committed to the analysis and communication of knowledge and research related to the field of gifted education. JEG is the official publication of The Association for the Gifted.
Published by the University of Washington, this report is an overview of the second follow-up study discussing their early entrance program. It outlines the strengths, weaknesses, and evolution of various aspects including the fact that early entrants need a welcoming college or university environment. In addition, this report compiled by Kathleen Noble, Robert Vaughan, Christina Chan, Sarah Childers, Bryan Chow, Ariel Federow, and Sean Hughes reveals possible effects of acceleration and graduation rates.
The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented conducted research to analyze and evaluate the procedures used in selecting youth for state supported residential schools of mathematics and science. Authors Fathi A. Jarwan and John F. Feldhusen offer ways to discover the correlations between admission programs and students grade point average.
The Concord Review recognizes and publishes exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world. The Concord Review remains the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students. Essays should be in the 4,000-6,000 word range, with endnotes, on any historical topic, and must be typed, printed from a word processor, or sent on a Macintosh disk.
The Gifted Education Communicator is a practitioners journal. The primary target audiences are parents and educators of K-12 gifted children. "Our goal is to provide information and strategies so you can more easily apply the theory, research, and best practices in the field. Let us be your resource in gifted education."
This program promotes interaction between teachers, students, graduate students, researchers and industry stakeholders in science and technology education and training. Some programs include: Dual Credit Enrollment, Excursions in Science, Mini Medical School, Science Information for Teachers, Summer Science Institute and more.
Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Area of research include Artful Thinking, Cultures of Thinking and Learning Innovations Laboratory.
School in the Park is a multi-visit museum program for students attending the Rosa Parks Elementary School that blends formal and informal learning by utilizing the rich resources of museums and educational institutions. This structured program focuses on high student expectations, aligned with state education standards, as students spend their time learning and gaining new experiences within rich museum settings.
Christa McAuliffe IS 187 is an entirely gifted middle school in Brooklyn. It's rated number one. Previous high grades or a test are necessary to get in.
This online catalogue offers information regarding training and products for the 6+1 Trait Writing framework, a powerful way to learn and use a common language to refer to characteristics of writing as well as create a common vision of what 'good' writing looks like. Teachers and students can use the 6+1 Trait model to pinpoint areas of strength and weakness as they continue to focus on continued writing improvement.
This comprehensive print and online catalogue of gifted and talented educational materials includes books, kits, videos, posters, games and software. Great for educators hoping to provide a differentiated curriculum, and homeschoolers or any parents of gifted and talented children.
Aventa Learning, a top educational technology company, has an extensive K-12 online curriculum, including 17 Advanced Placement courses. Classroom resources, independent study courses, credit recovery and test preparation supplements are available for students as well. There are also sections for teachers and administrators, which contain a great deal of useful information.
Mission: To provide an exceptional learning environment where children with the unique qualities and challenges of giftedness may have an education that provides the opportunity for unlimited growth in their areas of interest while building compensating strategies as needed for lifelong learning and well being. To promote the self-esteem of each student through passion interests, self-paced academic studies, artistic expression and physical fitness programs all designed to nurture and strengthen the body, mind and spirit of each child.
This site has several classroom learning experiences, a substantial list of links to websites that address different areas of education and instruction, classroom activities that accompany different titles of children's literature, and some of Bertie Kingore's recently published articles from different magazines and journals that address current topics and issues in education.
In 1996, the University won a USED Star Schools grant to research and develop an Internet-based high school curriculum appropriate for all students, specifically including at-risk and reluctant learners. Class.com was founded in 1999 to carry the mission of the grant forward and deliver the results of this research to schools everywhere. This company develops and distributes online content for secondary learners.
Classroom Connect is an award-winning provider of professional development programs and online instructional materials for K-12 education. They are devoted to helping teachers become better teachers by engaging them in their own learning and inspiring positive change in the classroom.
Dedicated to the promotion of student achievement, this distance learning school (grades PreK-6) seeks to integrate learning and technology into its online curriculum. Animation, audio, and video instruction enhance learning activities and students are offered the option of an assigned teacher. Compass also provides a free placement test for children - helping parents and educators determine appropriate course work.
With over 25 years of experience, this company specializes is curriculum that requires deeper analysis to help children build critical thinking skills in reading, writing, math, science and US history. In addition, there are three catalogs are available from this company: The Classroom Educator catalog, the Parent catalog, and the Homeschool catalog.
"We are dedicated to providing innovative and effective learning resources to students, teachers and parents. We publish and distribute books, manipulatives and software for Math, Reading, Science and Art for Grades K-12."
When it comes to kids and education, one size does not fit all! Discount School Supply offers the most personalized education resource on the Web. Our unique technology matches a child's learning styles, needs, and goals with the best educational products available. Its mission is to help children learn, discover, and grow. We treat every child as an individual who has specific learning needs, goals, and styles. This individualized, one-size-does-not-fit-all approach to kids and education infuses everything we do, especially the products, information, and tools we offer parents, grandparents, and gift-givers.
The Discovery Education website is composed of three different sub-sections - Discovery School, unitedstreaming, and Discovery Health Connection. The Discovery School offers free teaching tools, more than 750 videos, DVD's, learning books and teaching tools that can be purchased in their online store. One of these teaching tools is Discovery Health Connection, which features more than 5,000 videos to teach children about health education and the body. Unitedstreaming allows homeschooling parents and educators the ability to choose from 4,000 quality media streaming videos to teach about various areas, such as math, science, and social sciences.
Discovery Education provides a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service. Some of the features include: 5,000 videos from Discovery Channel, BBC, Math Mastery and others, teacher tools, teacher-managed student access, and searchable content by curriculum, keyword, subject area or grade.
This online curriculum resource was developed by Dr. T. Roger Taylor. In his 35 years as a classroom teacher, administrator, professor and internationally-known educational consultant, Dr. Taylor has authored/co-authored more than 5,000 integrated, interdisciplinary thematic curriculum units. The units are written based on the AHA (Analyzing Human Activities) model created by Dr. Taylor. This unique model includes specific application of the most recent brain research, multiple intelligences and constructivist hands-on project-centered learning in alignment with state defined benchmarks and standards.
Dr. Taylor specializes in curriculum design for differentiated curriculum including special needs learners and the highly gifted student. Even though his model is used successfully with all students, his AHA! model is especially effective with high at-risk students because it is student-centered and focused on creating intrinsic motivation of the learner.
This website contains useful educational resources for teachers. It provides curriculum ideas for math, science, reading, writing and more, as well as biographies of famous educational figures and events. There are also a number of educational website links. Most of the material is accessible but a subscription is needed for some.
"eTAP is a non-profit education corp., whose purpose is to provide K-12 curriculum for the core subjects of Mathematics, English, Science, and History on the world wide Internet. Our instructional material is designed to assist students, teachers and parents. The Lessons can be used for students’ instruction and for parents and teachers as an aid to help their children and students."
EMCParadigm Publishing offers textbooks on various subjects, information regarding educational standards by state, and online activities for certain textbooks.
This online curriculum resource is filled with fun learning opportunities for preschool through fourth grade. There are worksheets, games, information, jokes, printouts, craft ideas and so much more about many topics. You can type in search words or search by topic area. There is even a separate category for K-3.
This website is an excellent resource for students seeking to improve their spelling skills. Some features of eSpindle include personalized quiz sessions, catered to each student's skill level, and a database of over 100,000 words. The fee is $79.80 for an annual self-renewing membership, $99.80 for an annual non-renewing membership and $599 for a lifelong membership; a free 10-day trial period is also offered.
Exemplars offers differentiated, classroom-tested, standards-based assessment and instruction materials. Educators worldwide are using Exemplars. Exemplars pioneered the field of providing performance assessment tasks that meet national standards to improve assessment AND instruction. Founded in 1993, Exemplars began by assisting educators using K-8 mathematics problems and assessments that met NCTM Standards. We added Mathematics 9-12 two years later. Due to the popularity of math, we started publishing Science K-8 in 1997. RWR Exemplars (Reading, Writing and Research in the Content Areas) was published for grades 5-8 in 1999. Exemplars materials are now used by educators in 50 states and world-wide.
Follett Educational Services is the world’s largest provider of pre-owned textbooks and instructional materials. They carry a wide selection of quality pre-owned textbooks from all major publishers.
This networking and information provider (offering a newletter and website) is dedicated to making a difference in the pursuit of educational excellence for children. Gifted Children Monthly offers a wide variety of gifted and talented resources for parents, teachers, students, mentors and other professionals in the GT arena.
This online curriculum stresses computer use in the classroom and takes advantage of Internet communication to develop a worldwide community. It offers all kinds of projects that kids and teachers can participate in. It also lists lots of other websites that are great. Topics included are technology, curriculum, schools, research, online projects and competitions, and more.
As the nation's leading educational publisher for grades 6-12, Glencoe provides more of what you need to teach effectively and efficiently - and to meet the diverse learning needs of your students.
GSN is a provider of Virtual Curriculum ideal for homeschool students and families. Delivered entirely over the internet, this curriculum for grades 2-12 is deeply rooted in the National Academic Content Standards.Global Virtual Curriculum offers a complete, affordable, and comprehensive on-line education solution.
"Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) is the easy way to teach pre-printing, printing and cursive! It was developed by Jan Z. Olsen, OTR, an occupational therapist and handwriting specialist. She has more than 25 years of experience helping children and training teachers and therapists. HWT is an inclusive method for teaching children of ALL ability levels. Children love it. Also, it doesn't take any special training to teach the Handwriting Without Tears method. Parents and new teachers enjoy the simple and clear directions that make it easy to help children. Experienced teachers appreciate the innovative techniques and limited preparation needed to have great success with the entire class."
Based in Dallas, Texas, Journey Education Marketing has been offering significant discounts on high end academic software to students, faculty and learning institutions since 1990. JourneyEd is a software company’s total academic marketing solution. Many of our software company clients rely on us to (i) publish special student software versions and packages, (ii) market directly to millions of high school and college students and thousands of institutions, (iii) verify student versus non-student buyers and (iv) ship and deliver the final product to students. To qualify for academic discounts, a customer must have current student and/or faculty ID or be an accredited institution.
Jump start offers a wide range of educational software. They offer products for Toddlers up to the 5th grade.
Leadership Publishers Inc. was founded by Lois Roets in 1982 to provide educational materials for educators serving talented and gifted students. The company continues to provide books and workshops for talented and gifted students, their parents and school districts.
Learn.com offers access more than 200 web-based multimedia tutorials delivered over the Internet (formerly known as tutorials.com).
This software can be used by both children and adults and can assist the therapist in habilitation and rehabilitation of a wide variety of speech, communication, and cognitive impairments. Here are some examples: Autism and Related Disorders; Asperger's and PDD; Attention Deficit Disorder-ADD; ADHD; Learning Disabilities; Language Delay; Spelling, Reading, Phonics, Phonology; Language Disorders and Delays; Aphasia, Apraxia, Dysarthria, Anomia; Hard of Hearing, etc.
Learning Streams offers a wide variety of educational tools, including toys, textbooks, lab equipment, cd roms, games and more. Searches can be done by topic and/or grade level.
Lindamood-Bell is an organization dedicated to enhancing human learning. They were founded by the authors of critically acclaimed programs that develop the sensory-cognitive processes that underlie reading, spelling, language comprehension, math, and visual motor skills. Their process-based education programs are for individuals ranging from severely learning disabled to academically gifted–ages 5 years through adult. They are the originators and innovators of Lindamood-Bell® clinical services, professional development workshops, and a school implementation program called Human Learning Management® (HLM®). It is their mission to maximize the potential of every person to reason and communicate; they meet their goals with intelligence, integrity, and humor.
This is a place for parents to find information, activities, and many other resources to help support childrens' education.
The purpose of this Colorado-based company is to serve those who live and work with gifted children. A variety of books, CD's, and audio tapes that discuss giftedness are available. They also provide a journal for parents, educators and counselors called Understanding Our Gifted.
Keyword - Effective! PCS Academy of Science (AOS) products and curriculum are designed and manufactured to help teachers be more effective. To improve education, it is more important How Effectively we budget, and not How Much. With this in mind, our curriculum and products help teachers convey concepts, increase student's understanding and test scores, and save the teacher valuable setup time, providing more teaching time.
Quality is more important than quantity, and having the right tools is better than having many tools. While there are thousands of educational products, and it sometimes becomes mind-boggling to choose, PCS Academy of Science offers a smaller, effective line of products.
All our products are hands-on, inquiry based, exciting and engaging. They support the Core Curriculum Science Standards, while making science one of the most exciting subjects. Special emphasis is given to problem solving and understanding systems.
PCS Edventures! is the educational adventure where kids discover how things work. Edventures uses exciting hands-on projects, safe and secure communication tools, and a powerful reward system to motivate students. Students are assessed and motivated using the exclusive PCS Merit System that combines tutorials with stimulating, hands-on activities that challenge everyone! Gifted students can quickly “test out” to higher levels. Subject areas are diverse ranging from Art to Engineering. There is a strong emphasis on technological skills, computer and Internet use, and design skills. Fun materials and manipulatives are used including LEGO® products.
"Pieces of Learning staff, with expertise in Differentiation, Standards-Based Teaching Activities, Assessment, Underachievement, and Gifted and Talented Education, publish supplemental Activity Books to improve student thinking and questioning skills, encourage creativity in the language arts, promote critical thinking in math and science, explore character education, present research skills and provide enrichment in social studies. Teacher Resource book topics include differentiation, assessment, achievement, motivation, and teaching strategies."
Pro-Ed, Inc. is a leading publisher of nationally standardized tests, resource and reference texts, curricular and therapy materials, and professional journals.
RainbowResource.com is a family owned, on-line store, with catalogue, for homeschoolers everywhere. Our mission is to provide quality educational materials to home school families and private schools. Their hefty catalog (396 pages) is full of educational supplies, spanning all academic areas, plus more. There are many, many resources for each subject area, science supplies and kits, arts and crafts supplies, educational games, etc.
Renaissance Place is the integrated, web-based information system that brings together student data, giving teachers, principals, and administrators access to information they need to make data-driven decisions throughout their school or district.
The Responsive Classroom® is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging, and joyful classrooms and schools, K-8. Developed by classroom teachers, it consists of practical strategies for bringing together social and academic learning throughout the school day. Since 1981, thousands of classroom teachers and hundreds of schools and school districts have used the Responsive Classroom® approach to help create learning environments where children thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Educators using these strategies report increases in student investment, responsibility, and learning, and decreases in problem behaviors.
This website provides educators ready-to-use worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. These worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
Riverdeep is a premier provider of comprehensive K-12 e-Learning solutions offering comprehensive courseware and supplemental curricula over the Internet and CD-ROM, assessment and management tools, and professional development. Riverdeep courseware and supplemental curricula is educationally sound and continually tested in school classrooms for effectiveness by our education team. Students can learn, practice, and apply basic to advanced skills and concepts integral to educational success.
This website provides an online catalogue of software products. Software-Blowouts is the place to get all your software at Blowout Prices. Choose from education, games, language and much more.
Sonlight Curriculum is more than a company or a curriculum. It is a community as well. Sonlight offers products to effectively teach homeschoolers including instructor's guides, student activity sheets and study guides. Purchases can be made through the online catalog, or a printed catalog can be requested.
SuperKids is a website for parents and teachers who want the best in education for their children. SuperKids provides:
Reviews and ratings of educational software
Practical and fun tools for online and offline use
News about important educational issues
Views of visionaries and policymakers.
A 5+ subject CD-Rom for grades 3-12, that has built in answer keys for automatic grading, and easy teacher and student menus. This secular resource allows students to learn on their own and is customizable.
The Critical Thinking Company's products help students achieve better grades and higher test scores through critical thinking exercises in reading, writing, math and science lessons. Students carefully analyze what they are learning, producing deeper understanding. Over time, students who practice critical thinking learn to apply it throughout their education and life.
This online curriculum site has more than 2,000 free lesson plans for grades Pre-K through 12. You first choose the subject you are interested in, then choose the grade level. In addition to lesson plans are teacher discussions, mailing lists, projects, worksheets and more.
Time Timer LLC is taking the idea of a simple, visual depiction of elapsed time and turning it into a line of products that helps solve time perception problems. These proven products are so easy to use that even young children and those with learning disabilities can monitor their own timed activities.
This CD-ROM offers a fun touch-typing course that uses games and international travel so that the learner is having a good time while learning this necessary skill. An alternative to Mavis Beacon.
The Verbal Advantage Student Edition was specifically developed to help junior high and high school students and is also great for adults who are well on their way to learning English as a second language. There are 16 lessons, two per audio unit, which introduce new vocabulary words using fun, dramatized stories, typical English paragraphs, and unique "top twenty" word categories.
This website is the authors' personal companion website to their best-selling book "The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home." The website is chock-full of very helpful information for those who are considering or are using a classical approach to homeschooling (and also for public and private schools using a classical curriculum). Included on the website are bulletin boards where homeschooling parents can discuss successes and problems in using the classical approach at home; sample chapters and resource lists from the authors' book; helpful handouts from their conference presentations; a classical curriculum review index; basic information about homeschooling; and a wonderful set of links to educational materials and curriculum sites for classical education.
The WordMasters Challenge is a fun and mind-stretching classroom competition for Language Arts students in grades 3 - 12.
This company offers high-quality resources for exceptional educators. Zephyr Press (publisher of this website) publishes education resources for teachers that help them better understand how kids learn and how they can be more effective in the classroom, focusing on gifted education and the latest research on multiple intelligences and brain-compatible learning.
ArtEdge is a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
Authorware is a high end educational authoring program that allows one to create educational materials on any subject. In Authorware, one can take any subject, create interactive informational segments using a flow chart interface. One can even create quizzes and track progress on those using the product created in Authorware.
This video highlights practices that research has demonstrated to be effective when working in classroom environments. It acknowledges the diversity that exists in every classroom and presents a foundation that begs for differentiated instruction.
On this website, find a teacher's guide to Google products, including basic information about each tool, examples of how educators are using them, and lesson ideas.
This website is amazing! It offers AP quizzes and a lot of different history options. This website fits into many different categories. For educators, parents, students, for fun, etc.
The National Talent Network at EIRC, a public agency, is a resource for gifted students, parents and educators. The National Talent Network provides schools with a variety of Gifted & Talented programs for students grades K-12. Each program is unique, which allows schools to pick and choose one or more programs to meet their needs.
Find all sorts of information for planning your future in technology on this lively and fun website. Start off with a "Did you know...", then go to the Test your Tech page and start a quiz. Moving on, check out the long list of science clubs and competions. The What's New page will keep you coming back to this fun resource.
This website is a useful database for educational virtual field trips, distance learning and more. The search directory allows members a free search for specific trips as well as providing a centralized area for providers to advertise their events.
Raise Smart Kids provides a unique range of different math problems to help interested and gifted students develop outstanding capabilities in mathematics. We equip them with thinking skills that provide life-long benefits, and improve their chances of admission to top universities.
This interactive website sponsored by the Association of Children's Museums contains a searchable database of national and international children's museums.
This website is the work of a group of educators, scientists, artists and Internet experts at Caltech who built it as a Web-based science education site intended to support both home and classroom-based learning by scientific inquiry. This is an interactive "live" website. Registered users and guests create a drawing to represent themselves as they move around "Whyville." In Whyville, they interact with the other participants, as they learn about really cool science topics in an open-ended, exploratory way, invent things have the ability to do hands-on activities at home and post their results on the site. As they "work" they earn clams which may be redeemed for rewards.
This website features an online bibliography of textbooks in all subjects from the 1800s and digitized versions of three 19th century readers. This resource will be useful for homeschoolers interested in researching early curriculum materials, either for their own use or for historical research projects.
This website is a place to find differentiated activities in all content areas. For students the site offers additional/alternate activities if a classroom activity is too easy or too hard. For parents, there is information about the gifted and how to advocate for your student in the classroom. For teachers, there is information about the gifted, differentiation, and lesson plans.
This website offers a comprehensive dictionary of words commonly found in the gifted literature. It offers such terms as, ability grouping, Flynn effect, and unschooling. This website also offers links to various other gifted glossaries.
This About.com site is filled with articles, a blog and other useful information for anyone interested in learning more about gifted students. Topics include how to identify gifted young people, their educational needs and parenting help.
The ADHDSupportCompany.com site is "the site filled with timely, relevant information for everyone whose life is touched by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: parents, patients, teachers, doctors, nurses, family and friends."
This website allows you to ask any question of the experts who should know. Just find the subject you are interested in, choose an expert from the list, and pose your question. This site is great for both young people and parents. The subject headings range from education to parenting to science to cars to fashion...on and on.
With over 30 years experience, Dr. James R. Delisle talks about writing Parenting Gifted Kids and shares his perspectives on guiding the gifted.
This article is two excerpts from gifted and talented resources. The first excerpt is from an interview with Stephanie S. Tolan who "writes about giftedness for Advanced Development Journal and Roeper Review, and is a consultant on highly gifted children." The second excerpt is from "ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted", ERIC Digest #522.
This website allows you to sign up for ASCD SmartBrief, a FREE daily news briefing delivered directly to you through e-mail. Each ASCD SmartBrief takes you straight to the most salient news and trends affecting education today. This FREE service will help you break through the information overload and provide quick, easy-to-read summaries of top news in areas important to you.
What works in education? The Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE) presents reliable, unbiased reviews of research-proven educational programs to help policymakers, principals, teachers and researchers.
This online curriculum resource for K-6 teachers is designed to provide source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities.
This nonprofit organization's message is not a curriculum or add-on, but a powerful means to advance curricular and behavioral goals; a framework based on basic values called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. CHARACTER COUNTS! is the most widely implemented approach to character education, reaching millions of youth.
This checklist hosted by the Austega.com webite provides a characteristics checklist for teachers and parents looking for signs of giftedness in young children. Characteristic traits are listed by broad category of giftedness and include general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative thinking and production, leadership, psychomotor ability and visual and performing arts.
Child Trends Data Bank is the one-stop-shop for the latest national trends and research on more than 80 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month!
"This collection contains units and lesson plans developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools... every one of them contains valuable ideas, strategies, and resources to help teachers and homeschool parents continue to share the knowledge. Similarly, books and other resources recommended in these lessons are suggested by the teachers who developed the lessons...."
Cottonwood Press often uses an offbeat approach and a sense of humor to get students’ attention, especially when it comes to topics that can be perceived as boring. They challenge the students to think and encourage them to tap into their natural creativity. The basics are addressed — "but with flair!"
CYFERnet is designed to be used by anyone who needs comprehensive children, youth, or family information including: educators, researchers, parents, youth agency staff, community members, human services and health care providers, students, policy makers, youth and media.
This article covers numerous topics related to thinking, including: improving thinking in the gifted; helping children to think; and critical and creative thinking.
This is an online, free database of resources for educators provided by Discovery channel’s Discovery Education program. Resources include lesson plans, a teacher’s store and newsletter, curriculum center, teaching tools and more. This is a great resource for teachers of any grade level and home schoolers.
This website contains information and many useful homeschool forms printables for those who are educating children. The print-outs are in two formats, Adobe Acrobat and Rich Text Format. You will need the Acrobat Reader to open the Acrobat files. The Rich Text Format files can be opened with Microsoft Word and possibly with WordPerfect.
Earlychildhood.com is an online resource for parents and teachers. This website has a variety of resources including an online discussion group, arts & crafts, the EarlyChildhood News magazine, online curriculum and much more.
This website, a division of MarcoPolo, is a great resource for K-12 economics teachers and their students. It's features include: Internet-based lesson materials; Cyberteach, a guide to teaching economics using the Internet; an updated current events page; and up-to-date macroecomics information. There are also links to other economics pages and access to the EconEd newletter.
This website is home to EdGate’s Special and Gifted Education Center. It is organized to help find relevant resources on every topic associated with special education and gifted and talented education. Resources include lesson plans, article information and links.
This free curriculum website provides educators with lesson plans and web links for the humanities, including: arts & culture, literature & language arts, foreign languages and history & social studies. This site is a valuable resource for educators looking for creative ways to better teach the humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the MCI Foundation provide this resource. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to the classroom.
This website is a great resource for any age group. It offers a wide range of subjects to choose from. You can choose a topic and find just about anything. Articles, games, schools, workshops etc.
This website targeted at the K-12 education community features a collection of teaching materials, curricula and free downloads. The database has many good links to internet resources on almost every school subject. There are daily updates of current resources of educational interest and sources on building lesson plans, curriculum development. The site is affiliated with Education World magazine.
This web site is an easy-to-use, free, one-stop destination for parents of preschool through grade 12 aged children where parents can search for cutting-edge editorial, useful tools, community features, and over 2,000 reference articles on education and child development from the most respected universities, government agencies, and nonprofits in the U.S.
This website offers a large selection of articles relating to gifted education, including home schooling, twice exceptionalities, college and career planning, and more. Each article is rated on a 5-star system, letting you know in advance which articles are more in-depth than others. If you do not find what you are looking for in an article, Kidsource online has a discussion forum in which you can post your questions and receive feedback from several individuals.
EducationNews.org is a fresh approach to the age-old problem of increasing coverage of education news. Unfortunately, education is not a topic that news organizations are able to provide premium coverage to all the time, thus ironically, all education experts face the same problem - the difficulty of educating the public. The mission of EducationNews.org is to become the most frequently used tool on the Internet for disseminating education news.
This website provides a variety of services to help potential online and distance learners find out about e-Learning and select the best courses, programs and degrees for their needs. eLearners DOES NOT PROVIDE THE COURSES - they simply point you to a wide variety of learning providers, and try to give you enough information about online learning to narrow your choices and make an informed decision.
"Welcome Elementary School Students! If you are a student in Kindergarten to Grade 5, you will find lots of fun and interesting information on this site, including computer games in Math, Social Studies, Science and English. There are also links to help with homework, and sites that give you information about topics that you are studying in school."
ERIC EC gathers and disseminates professional literature, information, and resources on the education and development of individuals of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted.
Named "the world's premier application essay editing service" by The New York Times Learning Network and "one of the best essay services on the Internet" by The Washington Post, EssayEdge has helped more applicants write successful personal statements than any other company in the world. EssayEdge.com provides superior editing and admissions consulting.
This article details what happens to the profoundly gifted student when schooled with age mates rather than intellectual peers. Anecdotes of individual children support Gross's findings that profoundly gifted children do not have their needs met in the regular classroom.
This website has an array of educational resources. It has lesson plans, teacher resources, homework links, critical thinking activities, and other specific subjects of study.
"More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site."
This article link connects users to EducationNews.org and an article discussing how The Institute of Food Technologies (IFT) and Discovery Education are partnering to provide high schools across the nation materials for introducing students to the growing food science industry. The educational program, The Science and Scientist Behind the Food, informs students of future career options in food science before they enter college. There is a link for educators to access the program's materials online. High school guidance counselors are also provided with Careers in Food Science, a multimedia resource kit.
A follow-up to Free to Be You and Me, this movie has some great stories about kids talking about who they are and their families. It features stories, poems and songs by such authors as Shel Silverstein, Charlotte Zolotow and John Steptoe, and such celebrity contributors as The Fat Boys, Kermit the Frog, Carly Simon and Whoopi Goldberg.
"Opening doors to student imaginations since 1974, the Future Problem Solving Program offers new and exciting learning paths. Discovering rich and varied ways of thinking, students experience the excitement of creative thinking and the thrill of resolving difficult problems with unique solutions when they participate in FPSP. Inspiring and motivating, our educational materials help your students learn how to think (not what to think)."
This site offers information for anyone interested in game theory, specifically the application of game theory to a range of disciplines, including economics, business, political science, computer science, etc. Several things are provided specifically for educators, a list of relevant textbooks, lecture notes used by other educators and links to forms of entertainment with game theoretic themes.
This Professor of Special Education and Director of the Center for the Education and Study of the Gifted, Talented, and Creative has been a long time teacher of the gifted. Along with Jolene Kercher, Dr. Betts developed the "Autonomous Learning Model," the first high school program in Colorado and started a summer enrichment program for the gifted and talented at the Universityof Northern Colorado. Read an Article by this author.
This article by Gwen Morrison discusses the obstacles that gifted children may face in school and in life. It even touches on some of the "gifts" and rewards that come out of being a gifted child.
This webpage is a resource guide for teachers, including information about gifted students, how to identify gifted students, how to work with gifted students, and additional resources. As parents it may be useful in working with educators.
You have a classroom of 20-30 students and you have varying levels of ability in your classroom. Guess who will probably learn the least in this typical classroom? Most likely it will be the 'gifted' student(s). This article by Sue Watson discusses this issue further.
This website focuses on "The 20 year Retrospective project". The goal of this project is to gain insight and understanding from (mostly young) people about their thoughts about being gifted, the schools they attend and future plans. After all, who better to learn about giftedness from than you, the person living the life!
In this article from the LearnNC.org website, Cathy Kroninger emphasizes the importance of understanding gifted children. She gives tips for identifying gifted learners, strategies for teaching and using resources to gain a better understanding of the gifted.
"The Global Gateway is a new international website, enabling those involved in education across the world to engage in creative partnerships. It is a one-stop-shop, providing quick access to comprehensive information on how to develop an international dimension to education."
This website allows anyone to find out certain graduation rates for the colleges they select.
GreatSchools.net is your objective source of school information on elementary, middle and high schools. A nonprofit organization, GreatSchools.net provides information about public, private and charter schools in all 50 states and detailed school profiles for California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and Washington.
Primarily for parents of gifted children, this website hosts an online community supporting their needs. There are three email lists (GT-adults, GT-families, and GT-Special). There is also a MOO (virtual world with various thigs to do) for kids and parents. They also have a collection of articles, books, links, and other information regarding gifted children.
"Children who paint or write in cursive, but who are unable to write legibly and consistently, in spite of repeated admonitions, require special approaches to the solution of their special difficulties. These are youngsters who are unable to properly form their letters, who have difficulty keeping their letters on the line, who may not seem to understand the relative sizes of letters, who either crowd letters within words together, or who space so poorly that it is almost impossible to determine where one word ends and another begins." Read this article for more information.
"HOTS was developed in 1980 by Dr. Stanley Pogrow, Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, and one of the leading national experts on school reform. Dr. Pogrow discovered that the primary learning need of Title I and LD students in grades 4-8 was not content remediation, but the development of the types of thinking skills needed to process the more complex and integrative classroom content found in grades 4-8."
This website is the most comprehensive website about giftedness on the Internet. Links to many interesting articles, resources, and all the major national programs for gifted children are included. A separate section of the website provides resources for families with highly, exceptionally, and profoundly gifted children. To learn about giftedness, begin here!
Home Educator's Family Times is the homeschool publication for new or veteran homeschool families. The website offers a variety of homeschooling resources for parents, educators, and other professionals.
This online curriculum resource was developed by Charity Lovelace, a homeschooling mother. She has made available on this site unit studies she has written herself, plus links to more than 300 unit studies posted elsewhere on the Internet. Most unit studies are complete with curriculum goals and objectives, lists of required materials and readings, and evaluation procedures. An amazing resource for new and veteran homeschooling families; particularly appropriate for gifted children, since many of the units incorporate interdisciplinary approaches.
This online curriculum resource is an innovative effort to bring quality differentiated curriculum and instruction into classrooms nationwide. The site has two goals. First, we hope it will help teachers learn to provide more responsive instruction for academically diverse students. Second, and as a result of providing high quality differentiation, we hope teachers will become better equipped to identify and nurture talent in student populations where talent has traditionally been under-recognized and under-served. Contains a searchable database of strategies, lessons, units, and assessments for classroom curriculum. Also contains links to resources for parents.
This website provides students, teachers and parents with a number of useful social studies, math, science and language arts activities and resources. Education Place has something for everyone: teachers and parents can access information on state resources, textbook support, and receive newsletters; the kids' section contains many games and fun, educational activities. The site's resources are geared for students in grades K-8 and those who interact with them.
This Nexus Research Group article provides a number of useful strategies for identifying gifted children. The effectiveness of using professional evaluations and academic performance as a reasonable means for identification is refuted. The article describes the characteristics - both emotional and intellectual - that parents and teachers much watch for when determining whether or not a child is gifted. NEXUS Research Group
"InfoTrac College Edition, an Online Research and Learning Center, offers over 15 million articles from over 5000 scholarly and popular periodicals. Articles cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and topics- ideal for every type of researcher. Professors and students can gain access to the online database 24/7 on any computer with internet access. The newest feature to InfoTrac College Edition is InfoWrite, a writing tool that assists students through difficult areas of research writing."
InTime enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies. This three-year grant is from the United States Department of Education's PT3 program (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology). InTime resources are useful for (1) teacher educators creating case studies; (2) pre-service teachers learning about effective pedagogical techniques; (3) in-service teachers searching for ideas and independent professional development; (4) professional developers seeking resources to demonstrate good teaching and technology integration, and (5) administrators developing teacher quality initiatives and mentoring programs.
The ITBS provides educators diagnostic data that can drive remediation and better preparation for other, highstakes assessments. This test also highlights the most important information for parents, teachers, and administrators through quick and convenient Snapshot reports.
This online curriculum details the multi-disciplinary scientific expedition projects undertaken by researchers affiliated with Dr. Robert Ballard's Jason Institute. Now in it's 13th year of operation, Jason offers curriculum packages for instructors and homeschoolers with students in 4-9th grades, with online access and live video interactions between students and the researchers in the field. The projects look at Earth's physical systems and the technology that we use to study those systems. Some of the areas that Jason Project researchers have visited include Hawaii, the Galapagos, Belize, The Mediterranean and Alaska. The packaged curriculums include all materials and resources including movies, etc. This is NOT a free offering.
Just for the Kids School Reports compare each school with the highest performing schools in the state serving similar or more disadvantaged student populations. They are designed to show each school's potential for improvement.
This website is a marketing device for the Inspiration series of visual thinking tools. They develop and publish software tools that inspire students to brainstorm, organize, plan, and create. With over two million registered users worldwide, their award-winning software has revolutionized visual learning in education, inspiring students to develop strong thinking skills and improve performance.
Karl Bunday, creator of this informative website on homeschooling, outlines the steps of getting started with independant education and how to use schools and teachers only when they are helpful to you. Also found are great references on this subject including socialization and homeschooling resource guides.
LEARN: Atmospheric Science Explorers (LEARN) began in 1991 with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help fill the critical need of science teacher professional development. NSF funded two versions of LEARN. The fundamental goal of both LEARN programs was to increase middle school science teacher knowledge of and interest in the atmospheric sciences.
On this website, Teacher2Teacher, teachers and parents will find resources for those who have questions about teaching mathematics. T2T grew out of the Ask Dr. Math® service at the Math Forum in March of 1998 and can be best described as a a peer-mentored question-and-answer service.
This online curriculum resource from the Discovery Channel offers a multitude of lesson plans for free to use in homeschooling or as a supplement to enrich a school curriculum. It offers lesson plans anywhere from Gulliver's Travels in the literature category to Black Holes in astronomy and anything in between.
Math/Science Nucleus is a non-profit (501(3)c), educational and research organization composed of scientists, educators and community members. It serves as a science resource center to assist school districts, teachers, and administrators. A major goal is to increase the science literacy of students in our school systems by enhancing the skills of teachers and administrators. Improving their literacy will effectively teach generations of children. Math/Science Nucleus was founded in Fremont, California in 1982.
This webpage presents the joint position statement of the National Middle School Association (NMSA) & the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). The article helps teachers in gifted education classrooms by defining giftedness, listing possible sceanarios that teachers have encountered when culture has not been understood and explains many aspects of culture to help them become aware of the issues.
"Participants will examine and apply curriculum models and instructional strategies currently advocated for use with gifted learners. Course participants will examine the theoretical and practical implications of the models and strategies, and learn how to develop learning environments that promote academic challenge and learner independence."
This writing provides an overview of the major developmental theories currently influencing research on moral education. It reviews theories of moral development by Piaget, Kohlberg and Turiel, as well as a brief overview of the work of Carol Gilligan and the Morality of Care.
This website appears to have links to everything for and about the profoundly gifted! These pages are being designed for full-time parent/educators with a special section for the highly/profoundly gifted. Aside from the EPGY links, and now BrainPop, no sites on these pages charge fees for their educational information & games.
This online curriculum was developed by Mrs. Seagraves, a 15-year veteran to teaching in her school's gifted and talented program, QUEST. There are several on-line activities, lesson plans, links to other websites for kids and teachers, an environmental center and more.
This website has a variety of resources for teachers, students and curious adults. Including reading, math, and technology resources and links.
"If you're a teacher, the NAR can help engage and energize your students with our educational resources and 40+ years of model rocket expertise. You can obtain a free copy of our Educator CD-ROM. Simply fill out the short survey and contact information form. We'll deliver a copy directly to you in four to eight weeks."
This was the first national report on the status of educating the gifted and talented students of the United States since 1973. The crux of the paper outlined the 'quiet crisis' occurring in our educational system. There are historical data, analyses and recommendations. Read the section on Support for Students.
Along with videos/DVDs, National Professional Resources (NPR) also publishes and distributes books for staff development in the field of education. Areas of concentration include Administration/School Reform, Special Education/Inclusion, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Multiple Intelligences/Emotional Intelligence just to name a few.
This website from the Public Broadcasting Service offers an endless supply of information on various topics. Books, DVD's, and videos can be purchased. Teachers can access TeacherSource, which has more than 3,500 lesson plans and activities. One can also get their local PBS television listings as well.
This online curriculum by Pengiun Books offers guides for teaching literature to students. The list includes guides for a variety of literature and provides background information on the piece/author, discussions of the elements of literature, activities, questions, resources and some even include recipes and interviews with the authors. Many of the guides also include activities to be done both before and after reading the book.
Based on the book, Picky Parent Guide, Choose Your Child’s School with Confidence, this companion website helps parents choose the best learning environment that fits their child and family.
The author's goals include keeping parents informed about the latest research and happenings in the education arena and how these trends impact your children, and generating a productive dialogue among all the adults who play roles in educating children.
The information on this Web page has been written by Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D. and is excerpted from On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, 2nd Edition, (2004 Prufrock Press Inc.). He provides key concepts for teaching to the social and emotional needs of gifted students.
This website by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science is based on the initiative to advance literacy in science, mathematics and technology. Featured are sections on Curriculum Materials; Testing & Assessment; Research on Teaching & Learning; and Family & Community. It includes an array of resources such as curriculum and textbook evaluations, article links, and suggestions for reform.
ProQuest K-12 is a digital learning resource provider for the K-12 education market. ProQuest K-12 offers up-to-date online reference databases, standards-based digital curriculum, and easy-to-use tools for preparing lessons and is a leader in the K-12 education information market.
Quantum Learning Network has evolved from a small group of educators in the early 1980's to a global organization spanning more than 14 countries. The Quantum Adademy in Oceanside, CA offers programs on Youth Achievement, Teacher Training, College Success and Adult Learning. Achievement skills courses include academic and study strategies, powerful memory and reading techniques, effective writing, thinking and learning, purposeful teaching practices, empowering leadership, and more. QLN also offers a 10-day SuperCamp Summer Program.
This website is Dr. Schultz's personal homepage hosted by the Univeristy of Toledo and contains links to his writings, courses he teaches and upcoming seminars.
CyberSafety: How do you take care as good parents to ensure your children are not meeting the wrong type of stranger online? Safe2read allows you to allocate everyone in your family their own email account, with a level of automatic supervision appropriate to their age.
This article discusses a variety of problems that schools face today. It states that, "(S)chool-level problems range from student boredom, curriculum deficiencies, tracking, teacher and administration burnout, and hiring of unqualified teachers."
SchoolMatters provides rich information and powerful search and comparison tools to help uncover the stories behind the numbers, and further the discussion about how to improve student performance. SchoolMatters gives policymakers, educators, and parents the tools they need to make better-informed decisions that improve student performance.
Schoolwide Prevention of Bullying is a booklet from a series that discusses the important and ever increasing issue of bullying. "These reports briefly address current educational concerns and issues as indicated by requests for information that come to the Laboratory from the Northwest region and beyond. Each booklet in the series contains a discussion of research and literature pertinent to the issue, a sampling of how Northwest schools are addressing the issue, suggestions for adapting these ideas to schools, selected references, and contact information."
This website is an excellent resource for those interested in a variety of fields related to special education. With a collection of links for resources in specific fields such as learning disabilities, behavior disorders and more. The information on this website is continually modified and updated.
This is a teacher resource guide to meeting the needs and improving achievement of exceptionally gifted students in your classroom. Researchers focusing on highly gifted children concur that the exceptionally gifted child presents individual, unique, and extraordinary needs which exceed options regularly provided within the regular elementary as well as the regular gifted classroom. As the mission of the Rockwood Gifted Program is to meet the needs of ALL Rockwood identified gifted children, our goal is to challenge and support the district's unique population of exceptionally gifted students.
Start with this web page when looking to find information for teaching philosophy: how to aquire training, how to get philosophy offered in your school, planning your course and access to resources and tools.
Hosted on the Internet Special Education Resources website, this extensive directory includes special education advocacy services offering help on everything from legal issues to Estate Planning for Special Needs families.
As a culture, we are focusing new attention on childhood bullying and harassment. As we watch children being crushed by bullying, we often feel powerless. No more! There are ways to stop bullying, based on decades of research. There is little need to describe why people want to stop childhood bullying. Childhood bullies are more likely to become young adult criminals than are non-bullies. Bullied children may grow up with diminished self-confidence. The links on this site will lead you through an exploration of interventions that work to reduce bullying in schools.
The beginning of a new school year is a good time to think about what direction you want your child's education to take. Before that first parent-teacher conference, before the first IEP meeting, before the first call from the principal, plan your strategy, assess the situation and your child's abilities, and learn some new tactics for obtaining what your intellectually gifted child needs for a successful school year.
This is a great site that gives parents of young children a great source of information about the developemental milestones while contrasting normal children with gifted children.
This online curriculum enrichment service offers teachers practical help in planning courses and presenting rigorous subject matter to students.
It consists of a series of instructional guides on important topics in the humanities on the secondary level, such as "Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History" and "Divining America: Religion and the National Culture." Each guide provides commentary along with instructional tools.
Prufrock Press is now offering an online resource just for teachers. Teacher's Corner has helpful information, links, upcoming events and blogs for teachers of gifted and talented children.
This is a FREE, non-profit service. It costs nothing to access the information, and no money is made from teachers who contribute. Material on this site is updated WEEKLY during the school year. The information on this website is great for teachers as well as homeschool children. The website offers online curriculum in a variety of subjects.
This website has a variety of links for gifted and talented resources.
This article, by Pamela Darr Wright, M.A., discusses the frustrations parents of special ed kids feel when their children are blamed for certain problems that arise in school.
This article by Kim Delmar Cory discusses how being gifted can be a good thing to some children, while it is a bad to thing to others. "Every child possesses gifts of his or her own: it is up to parents to help their children unwrap these gifts."
The Gifted Identity Formation Model, presented here, helps bridge the theoretical with the practical, includes identity and its formation as crucial variables in the counseling process and uses identity as the baseline for intervention. The model aids with assessment and helps deliver counseling related interventions that explore and strengthen the identity and identity formation of gifted people, in turn enhancing the health and development of the self.
This online curriculum resource offers teachers (or homeschoolers) everything they need to take advantage of the Library of Congress's more than 7 million online resources. The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum. Investigate curricular themes using primary sources from across the American Memory collections. Use features and activities to engage your students through interactive puzzles and learning games and through collaborative projects that make history come alive!
This online curriculum from the EPA provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash. Each chapter includes one or more fact sheets providing background information on each topic. In addition, each chapter includes an index showing the grade ranges, subject areas and skills used for each activity to help teachers select the appropriate activities.
Teachers can use this resource as one of many tools in the development of their lesson plans, incorporating a range of its suggested activities and subjects into different educational units throughout the school year. Activities and concepts can be incorporated into existing curricula, or teachers can create special week-long units on the environment and solid waste or use the activities to commemorate Earth Day.
Use this site to find out the latest thinking on current gifted and talented initiatives, practical guidance and advice on developing the needs of gifted and talented children and for professional development for teaching staff...
The United Nations Cyberschoolbus is an education site created as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization.
Through its connections to schools, libraries, community organizations, businesses and homes, UTOPIA engages in public service to the most remote areas of the state and nation. In short, UTOPIA breaks down the physical boundaries between the university and the world with a goal of creating a universal university, the pathway to information for all people, regardless of location, resources or technical skills.
"Web Resources are links to other Internet sites that will help students, teachers, and parents in their mathematical endeavors. They provide additional resources for homework help, test preparation, teacher support, history of mathematics, and more."
This is an article from the Inland Empire Dyslexia Branch that discusses, in detail, what dysgraphia is, specific symptoms, misunderstandings of dysgraphia, and more. "Dysgraphia is defined as a difficulty in automatically remembering and mastering the sequence of muscle motor movements needed in writing letters or numbers. This difficulty is out of harmony with the person's intelligence, regular teaching instruction, and (in most cases) the use of the pencil in non-learning tasks. It is neurologically based and exists in varying degrees, ranging from mild to moderate. It can be diagnosed, and it can be overcome if appropriate remedial strategies are taught well and conscientiously carried out.
"This author provides reflections on the 25 years of his work, focusing on the evolutions of models designed to help identify and meet the needs of gifted and talented students. The cited models include the Three Ring Conception of Giftedness, the Enrichment Triad Model, and the Schoolwide Enrichment Model. Summaries focus on the rationale supporting each model, including practical applications of the model in various school situations and underlying research. Also included are insights related to potential modifications and future development of the models."
This article summarizes children's handwriting k-12. It gives common examples and parent's and idea of what to expect.
"The current nationwide emphasis on ensuring that all students and schools meet high standards has increased the demand for evidence of "what works" in education. Currently, few resources exist to help education decision makers differentiate high-quality research from weaker research and promotional claims. As a decision-making tool, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) helps the education community locate and recognize credible and reliable evidence to make informed decisions."
This website provides information about Word Finding for professionals, parents, and learners with word finding difficulties. Topics include definition, characteristics, assessment, intervention, and available course work.
This article answers questions like: Why are IEP goals and objectives so difficult? What makes this IEP process so confusing?
Some people produce characteristic, recurring writing problems as a result of inappropriately applying visual thinking to writing. This paper proposes that the writing problems of such visual thinkers derive from three factors: a lack of words, unfamiliarity with the kind of analysis that leads to the logical sequencing of prose, and difficulty understanding that context must be communicated.
YouthLeadership.com is an online resource for youth leadership education and development, specifically designed for individuals interested in the education and preparation of youth leaders through high standards and timely information.
These tapes offer college level lectures without the high prices, homework, or stress (but you also don't get college credit or feedback from a teacher, unless you know the teacher). Teachers are from colleges such as Stanford, Georgetown University, Brown University, Harvard, and many more. Many courses are available in video or audio versions and the catalog has tips on which might be better. The only reading involved is a course outline, and even that is optional as the tapes cover what's in the outline.
This CD-Rom has a lot of fun games that can teach you to spell more than 5000 words.
Hosted on the Enhance Learning with Technology website, this detailed article by teacher Priscilla Theroux, outlines 21 strategies for enhancing motivation in students. Theroux has extensive experience dealing with underachieving students and has been greatly influenced by the insight of Joanne Rand Whitmore and Sylvia Rimm.
This free online educational source offers advance placement testing, educational tools, complete curriculum from K12, loaner computer and printer, textbooks and materials, and guidance from an experienced teacher. Students study at their own pace and progress to the next course as they master the required skills for advancement.